Connecticut Expos, producer of several women’s events in Connecticut is announcing dates for the 2nd annual St. Vincent’s Southern Connecticut Women’s Expo! The event will take place September 27 & 28 at the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, CT.

Less discomfort, shorter recovery

Once treatable only with open heart surgery on a heart-lung bypass machine, such defects may now be repaired through procedures performed in the interventional lab or Hybrid OR, percutaneously or through the skin. This means less discomfort and a much shorter recovery for patients.

Structural heart disease includes malformations of blood vessels in the heart, problems with heart valves, structural defects of the heart muscle walls and abnormal connections between the heart and the blood vessels that carry blood to and from the heart. St. Vincent’s physicians are at the forefront of treating heart problems including:

Septal defects: an opening in the septum, or wall that separates the heart chambers.

Patent foramen ovale: commonly called hole in the heart. It is a form of septal opening between the right and left atrium that has been linked to migraine headaches and strokes.

Coarctation of the aorta: a narrowing of the aorta that causes severe hypertension and may cause an aneurysm of the brain vessels that can rupture and cause extensive hemorrhagic strokes.
Congenital or acquired valve defects: these can include valves that are narrow (aortic stenosis, mitral stenosis, pulmonary stenosis, and tricuspid stenosis). Most of the time these can be initially treated percutaneously, that is, through catheters instead of open heart surgery.

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